| Description |
1 online resource (211 p.) |
| Series |
Crime Science Ser |
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Crime Science Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Agent-based modeling for criminological theory testing and development -- Introduction -- Agent-based modeling -- Agent-based modeling in criminological research -- Criminological theory testing -- Deriving expectations -- Observation on what actually occurs in given circumstances -- Stylized reality approach -- The null model -- ABM for criminological theory development -- What to expect? Outline of the book -- References |
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2 Generating crime generators -- Introduction -- Theoretical background -- Open questions -- The present study -- Method -- The model -- Model component specification -- Model environment -- Agents -- General agent characteristics -- Home location -- Personal activity nodes -- Shared activity nodes -- Routine activity nodes -- Offender agent characteristics -- Motivation -- Non-offender agent characteristics -- Suitability -- Agent behaviours -- Routine movements -- offender and non-offender agents -- Trip scheduling -- Transition probabilities -- Guardianship -- offender and citizen agents |
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Simulation experiments -- Seeding the environmental setup -- Results -- Existence of crime generators -- Spatial patterns -- Aggregate volume -- Discussion -- Notes -- References -- 3 Using agent-based models to investigate the presence of edge effects around crime generators and attractors -- Introduction -- The present research -- Literature review -- Crime generators and attractors -- Edge effects -- Crime distribution around crime generators and attractors -- Methodology -- Model specification -- Environments -- Criminal opportunity -- Control model -- Generator model -- Attractor model |
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Navigational nodes -- Agent specification and behaviour -- Simulation experiments -- Analysis methods -- Scatter plots -- Choropleth maps -- Stylised facts -- Sensitivity testing -- Scaling value -- Motivation variable -- Number of navigational nodes -- Results -- Control area -- Crime generator -- Crime attractor -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- References -- 4 Examining guardianship against theft -- Introduction -- Theoretical foundations for modeling crime events -- Routine activity theory -- Crime pattern theory -- Rational choice perspective -- Guardianship in action |
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Situational aspects of the guardianship role -- Guardianship in existing agent-based models of crime -- Current study -- Methodology -- Model environment and agents -- Agent movement patterns -- Theoretical specification -- Model specification -- Offender decision-making and guardianship -- Theoretical specification -- Model specification -- Experiments and outcome measures -- Stylistic facts -- Theoretical expectations -- Experiments -- Findings -- Stylistic facts and theoretical expectations -- Spatio-temporal patterns -- Distribution of guardians across space and time |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Spatial relationship between opportunities and theft |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Elffers, Henk
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| ISBN |
9781000287035 |
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1000287033 |
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